Thousands flocked to Africa Oye in Sefton Park to watch beat-filled …

The UK’s biggest live festival of African song and enlightenment got off to a drifting start today.

Thousands of people flocked to Africa Oye in Sefton Park to watch beat-filled performances and suffer food from around a universe in stately sunshine.

Paul Duhaney, artistic executive of a festival, said: “It’s about bringing people together for a jubilee of cultures, with all ages, all ethnicities and only fundamentally entrance together as one for a giveaway festival for one weekend.”

He added: “Some of a stalls are utterly dear though other than that it’s been really good.”

When tonight’s festivities came to a tighten in a park many motionless to continue a fun with a revisit to circuitously Lark Lane or a Baltic Triangle where a celebration continued with song from a operation of reggae, Afrobeat, hip bound and universe beats DJs.

The giveaway festival, that began on a tiny scale in 1992, has grown to turn a tie on a city’s song calendar.

This year’s eventuality was dedicated to Kenny Murray, who late as artistic executive of Africa Oye final year.